Meridian Water Proposals
At the moment only two bus services actually serve Meridian Water and then they only reach the station and Tesco. Note that the bus shows Angel Road Superstores, whilst the stop shows ...
... Glover Drive IKEA which no longer exists. To be fair, the stop name may gave changed, although, knowing London Buses desire to avoid dramatic change, it probably hasn't.
But London Buses has a cunning plan to provide Buses that actually make it to the developing estate. The plan is out for consultation (don't laugh).
Proposal 1
The 341 will be cut back to Northumberland Park whilst the 476, currently terminating at Northumberland Park will be extended to replace the 341. Here is a TfL map.
Just to confuse us all, the night service will still be 341. The proposed 476 will run to Kings Cross not Waterloo. Both N341 and 476 will make it to somewhere in the new estate.
Proposal 2
The 444, which used to whizz past on the North Circular will be diverted via Tesco, the new bit and back out again.
Proposal 3
Another swapsie! The 192, which used to run to Tottenham Hale with now run to Lea Valley Athletics Centre. Meanwhile, the W8 which used to terminate at Lea Valley will run to, guess where, Northumberland Park. The W8 will serve a bit more of Meridian Water.
To an outsider living well away from the Metropolis, these changes seem odd. Why not simply extend the 341, divert the 192 and leave the 444 as the only major change.
But who can unravel the tangled knitting that forms the mind of the TfL planners?
Maybe an emerging theory of the human brain may explain their thinking!
fbb read the news item and, of course, has not the foggiest idea what it us all about.
Anything with Quantum in its name is just weird!
And some find the idea of God difficult to understand. fbb can assure his readers that God us far more believable, hugely more understandable and really really helpful compared with anything that has 'quantum' in its name.
If you want to know more, you can find this book on-line.
fbb has a copy, has read it several times and ...
... he still cannot grasp it. Not only that, but there are even more things that involve the quantum than there were c 60 years ago when fbb first tried to grasp Mr Hoffman's oeuvre!
And there's more ...
... coming up is quantum on your 6G mobile phone.
A London Suburban Diagram
We all know Harry Beck's' London Underground map. But other operators pinched the same idea. Here is the pre-nationalisation LMS with its services based on London Euston.
Starting from the north we see that ...
... the branches between Watford and Croxley Green or Rickmansworth have long gone with those communities served exclusively by the Metropolitan line of the Underground.
The branch to Stanmore ...
... was also overtaken by the more frequent Metropolitan branch, later Bakerloo, later Jubilee line.
Services from Willesden ...
... are very much part of the Overground today. The detail has changed a little but the concept us still recogniseable.
Most services in the inner areas still operate ...
... with the exception of the line to Poplar. But the LMS seems to have annexed the Bakerloo Line!
fbb may return to some of these lines in a later blog.
The Transatlantic Tunnel Teaser
The Transatlantic Tunnel Teaser
Four more daft "news" items have graced this often completely potty news items. Readers may like to wonder at the Appalling Inventedness of the illustrations.
We have a floating train ...
... another underwater train with very strange reflections ...
... and a very unrealistic tunnel.
And how about a tunnel that is too small for anything other than a fairground ride?
And they call it A I, (Amazing Incompetence), which, we are told, is the future of everything.
What To Do ....
.... with the other half of the gateway, its second round (actually octagonal) tower.
Answer ...
Jackpot idea and a notable bodge!
And A Puzzle Picture
How much would you have to pay for the above, a brand new Hornby locomotive?
Answer tomorrow.
Next Variety blog : Sunday 18th Jan
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